http://www.oneworld.net/article/archive/80 en_US http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160678/1/80 According to a latest research, women in labour can now be tested for HIV in rural hospitals in India. By using a woman’s blood and saliva samples, doctors can detect the infection and start the antiretroviral therapy (ART) that prevents transmission of the virus to the newly born. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160556/1/80 IISD’s latest commentary Is Green Great?: Balancing the Demands of Environmental Protection and Human Needs, is the adaptation of Oli Brown's views made at a symposium, held in Portland, Oregon. The author feels that environmentalism is fundamentally about improving living conditions and a more efficient utilisation of resources. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83719 Climate scientists are ready to bet serious money that recent global cooling predictions are wrong. From: RealClimate http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160343/1/80 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83565 Arctic scientists are preparing for the possibility that the North Pole could lose all its ice cover for a time in 2008. From: New Scientist